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The viral meme #SelfieOlympics has elevated the selfie from its previous primary appeal of voyeurism and aesthetic slumming and made it a hotly contested competition. Participants are vying to outdo each other with the sheer elaborateness or weirdness of their selfies. The popularity of the hashtag has reached fever pitch.

Aside from the hashtag, the Twitter handle @SelfieOlympics has been posting any relevant selfies it can find, submitted or otherwise. It’s worth looking through all the images (of course some are NSFW), but here are our 10 favorites selected from those pictures whose owners we could identify.

So far there are two main approaches to the photos. One consists of cramming oneself into an awkward and physically demanding position in front of the bathroom mirror. Take for example the girl who is brushing her teeth and appears to be reaching up with her leg to press the shutter button on her phone, which is on top of the door:

This led to a lot of door climbing, culminating with a dude with blanket and pillow sleeping on top of the door.

The second approach, which is our favorite, involves cramming as many random things as possible into the bathroom, then snapping a picture.

Garrett Nall, a student at the University of North Texas, went this route. His photo has been among the most popular. His 4-year-old brother has a lot of toys, so he grabbed an old ball pit and decided to sit in it wearing a toy fire hat while his friend pretended to jump in from the toilet. Off to the side there’s a giant Pikachu doll that Nall won at Six Flags; it’s holding a toy gun and the smartphone with the camera.

“We hadn’t used the ball pit or the other things in years, so we decided to just put it all in there and now the photo is totally blowing up,” says Nall, 18, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Sean Huang, 16, who lives in Dallas, says he was on Twitter at 3 a.m. on January 3 when he started seeing #SelfieOlympics photos. The next day, while his parents were at work, he decided to join in and filled his bathroom with random objects — a toaster, his Christmas tree — then jumped into the bathtub naked, with a bike, a guitar and a gun. He snapped a photo with his iPhone on a self-timer.

“I just stuffed the bathroom with every obnoxious thing I could find,” he says.

Yes, his parents know a a photo of their semi-naked son holding a gun is flying around the internet.

Other favorites we’ve come across include a young woman, who appears to be fighting cancer, flipping off the camera while in the hospital. Then there’s the one of kid who set himself of fire, the kid who shoved a kayak through his bathroom door, and the one of the young man who posed with a giant portrait of Tupac.

Like all viral hits on the internet, we suspect the popularity of the #SelfieOlympics will wane quickly. But we look forward to watching this trend until the very end as #SelfieOlympics goes down as the first big viral meme of 2014.